Maura Derrane has revealed some of the secrets to her happy marriage to husband John Deasy.
The RTE star is happily married to John Deasy, a Fine Gael TD, and the pair have a five year old son Cal together.
However, the last 12 months have seen the couple both extremely busy with work, with The Today Show host holding the fort at home while John’s high-powered job took him to America, RSVP Live reports.
The couple split their time between Dungarvan, Dublin, Cork and the US, however their sense of independence is one of the strengths in their marriage according to Maura .
She told RTE Guide that her marriage of fourteen years has kept going due to their time spent apart as much as their time spent together.
However, she admitted that she’s not sure what the pair will do once John leaves his role as a politician: "It might be different now when John leaves politics as we don’t know exactly what he will do."
John is set to leave national politics after some 17-years, and Maura added: "I don’t know and I don’t think John knows either.
“John has been in politics for so long he’ll take a breath but there will be a lot of opportunities on the horizon.
“John is back and forth to the US quite a bit but I don’t see it as an option for me.
“Cal has just started school, so unless it’s a special two-year period and I really never say no to anything but to up sticks to go to the States; it would have to be something spectacular. But I never plan too far ahead.”
She also revealed she was always careful to keep her distance from politics, aware of the risk of blurring the lines between her career and being a politician's wife.
She explained: “I have always kept myself quite separate from the political arena even before John and I got married.
“We have always had very defined, separate careers and I never did the wife-of-the-politician thing.
“You have to be careful when you’re on TV and married to someone in politics as you never want to seen biased in any particular way.
“I’m not a bit political and never was but going through difficult times does impact but what what are you going to do?
"The reality is that you can understand so much of what another person is going through.
“All you can do is to be there to lend a hand and a supportive word."
